First, as someone else stated, a DSP is generally a business. Not an individual. That said, I do know some people who have incorporated themselves just to get around the whole "We deal with businesses, not individuals" rules.

But then, it comes down to what contract terms Amazon offers DSPs. Certainly, nobody in their right mind* is going to partner with Amazon for a price that won't cover their expenses. Rural areas with high fuel costs per delivery will bid more for their service. Or not sign up. Amazon, if they are not dumb as rocks, will add this variable cost to the bottom line of each purchase. After all, they are not the USPS with universal service written into law.

*Uber/Lyft will make a liar out of me. There are people living on the edge of poverty for the opportunity to buy a car, insurance, fuel and maintenance just to chauffeur some zoomers around.

Didn't we just have a No Kings day?

Caveat: I haven't examined systemd's aproach to the "age field", so this may not be easy or possible. But one approach would be to build an "age" record structure. Where one can enter an appropriate value, tied to their system user id. Then ship that off to a certified verification authority together with photo id. The authority cryptographically signs the record and returns it to the user. Who may then pass it on to any "adult-only" sites that request it.

If this could be done, it puts systemd out of the age verification business. Since that record could be stored in any one of a number of place in the file system. Of course any one of these approaches could be defeated by a skilled coder who can root around file systems and find Dad's OnlyFans certificate. Then it's blackmail. You leave me alone or I'll tell Mom.

Then they can fork off their own version of GNU/Linux. China has done so. And I'd venture a guess that these are all Chinese regulatory compliant.

Quantum computing is so yesterday. It's all AI today, baby!

I've seen this on one of my recent Linux installs (Devuan). I get a warning before pasting into a shell prompt. That's not a problem because I know how to inspect text (tiny fonts, etc) copied from an untrusted source before running them*. Unfortunately, it also seems to interfere with the 'copy from terminal' functions. Which makes it a real annoyance.

*I've caught a few of these. And rather than deleting them, I've tweaked some of the concealed commands to see if I can't have some real fun with the originators. At this moment, someone might be sitting in an interrogation room, answering questions from counterintelligence.

And the profitable business opportunities for Sora involve customers like Disney. Who don't want to be associated with porn.

Windows has been pretty damned stable since Windows 7 was released, that's 2009 for anyone not paying attention. Microsoft changed it so that one bad driver can't crash the entire OS.

Seems Apple is going all out with the paid propaganda of late... Because there's no way they're cheaper. If anything keeping hardware for longer makes it more expensive as you have to deal with more hardware failures, extended warranties, outages, et al. I suspect Apple is using very, very funny maths.

Where will they find a control group?

... Ride of the Valkyries.

... find my cat.

... if you do it twice.

And it is common practice. And has been for a long time. If you want to do business with the government and you can't certify that your suppliers comply with applicable rules and regulations, you either stop using them. Or give up the business opportunity. Welcome to the Federal Procurement Process.

It's a hostage situation because Anthropic is trying to insert its TOS as a poison pill into others supply chains. The Pentagon doesn't have to comply with them. But as a potential vendor, you may be exposed to tortious action. Anthropic is setting you up as a blackmail victim. Something, by the way, that counterintelligence is VERY interested in.

I've been living in the DoD (now the DoW) supplier business for decades. And yes, it's bizarro land. But it's the law. Federal contracts are not some sort of UBI for crybaby companies.

Not 'punishment'. But 'not fit for use'. That is, in fact, what Anthropic says.

OK. Then you don't win the bid. Assuming that the DoW worded their acquisition RFQ properly. Also, if a third party uses Claude and wishes to bid on a DoW supply contract, Anthropic's resistance to being involved in such business may put that potential third party supplier in legal risk. The DoW has a right to proactively warn future partners about such a conflict. Hence the "supply chain risk".

Anthropic is taking potentially unwilling parties hostage. Anthropic has no right to impose its desires on these parties. That's restraint of trade. A violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and a felony.